Viking Flying Boat Company, New Haven, Connecticut
Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935:
• President: Robert E. Gross. Vice-president, Treasurer and Sales Manager: Courtlandt S. Gross. General Manager and Assistant Treasurer: Jacob L. Freed. Chief Engineer: Franklin T. Kurt.
Three-place open biplane. A TC 392. Kinner B-5 engine, 125 horsepower.
Span 28 feet 4 inches. Length overall 22 feet 11 inches. Height overall 8 feet 8 inches. Wing area 233.4 square feet. Chord 54 inches. Power loading 15.60 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 8.37 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 1178 pounds. Useful load 772 pounds. Payload 383 pounds. Gross weight 1950 pounds. Fuel capacity 35 gallons. Oil capacity 3 gallons.
Maximum speed 110 miles per hour. Cruising speed 90 miles per hour. Landing speed 42 miles per hour. Service ceiling 15,300 feet. Rate of climb 700 feet per minute. Cruising range 420 miles.
Fuselage: seamless steel tubing, welded joints, fabric covered, two seats forward, one aft; dual controls; baggage compartment aft of rear cockpit. Wings: wood and fabric construction, spars and ribs of spruce; wings divided into 2 panels with 4 drag bays in each; lower wing bolted to fuselage, upper wings connected by cabane struts; cabane fitting designed to permit deflection of spars without setting up bending stresses in cabane members; narrow chord ailerons on top and bottom wings; interplane struts and cabane members of streamline tubing. Tail group: welded seamless tubing, fabric covered; adjustable stabilizer; fin and stabilizer braced to fuselage with double tie rods and streamline tubes. Fixed split-type landing gear equipped with Warner Aircraft Corporation wheels and brakes and oleo shock absorbers consists of two telescopic legs with top ends anchored to bottom fuselage longerons.
Standard equipment includes navigation lights, steerable tail wheel, Hartzell wood propeller.